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First award for Monsters University
It might be a little early for award season, but The Hollywood Reporter says that Monsters University has won the Hollywood Animation Award. Director Dan Scanlon and producer Kori Rae… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…for their clubs does not extend to housekeeping or home repair. They have neglected the building for generations. The Latin Quarter is now little more than a dump, covered in… |
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The Minions are coming in the summer of 2015
…the Despicable Me spin-off will open on July 10th of that year, just one week before a little movie called Batman Vs. Superman. That shouldn’t matter much, however, as Despicable… |
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First look at Rio 2
…hadn’t?” says newcomer Kristen Chenoweth. “That’s my little Gabi.” Also featuring the voices of Amanda Steinberg, Bruno Mars and Jemaine Clement as Nigel, Rio 2 opens everywhere on April 11th…. |
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AV to celebrate 10th anniversary all week!
Ten years ago this week, on October 18, 2003, Animated Views was born! We looked a lot different way back then and our name has changed a little bit. But… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…bears little resemblance to him. “He’s got Reagan’s pompadour and Clinton’s voice – I don’t know whose chin. We just threw them all together, you know? Put them in the… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…features that Disney had been putting out,” explains Jennett. “In comparison, Brother Bear felt a little more traditional and wasn’t considered particularly successful. I don’t know personally how well that… |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
…Brother Bear, Road To El Dorado or Titan A.E.; the remake of Astro Boy, SharkTale and Chicken Little would have been bad in 2D. AV: This is a unique situation… |
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Is there Room On The Broom for the Best Animated Short Oscar?
…back; Lang used that observation as a springboard for the cat’s ornery reaction to the broom’s new riders. “We wanted to give all these little changes from page to page… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #54: Mary Poppins – Jack of All Accents
…Van Dyke, jack of all trades, his poor accent. • Was there a romance between Mary and Bert? • The Kids: little monsters, list of conditional love for their nanny…. |
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New voice actor documentary playing on a TV near you
…DiMaggio says he signed on to the film because “I want my peers to get a little bit of recognition. These are some of the most talented people I know,… |
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New Peabody trailer, Rocky & Bullwinkle details
DreamWorks Animation has released a new trailer for their upcoming film Mr. Peabody and Sherman. And Rope of Silicon has a little information about the attached Rocky & Bullwinkle short… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #58: Cats Don’t Dance – It’s Big & Loud!
…we care so much about Sawyer? • Little Steven Spielberg • Yzma and Kronk are recycled • We Rate It! • Emails from Mike, Andrew Chee, Kynan, Alex Hatch, Mark,… |
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Studio Ghibli announces first ever TV series
…the Robber’s Daughter, and will focus on its titular little girl as she “gets to know the creatures of the forest, meets another kid like herself, and questions her father’s… |
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The Lego Movie
…a back seat. While it does get a little muddled (and is overall fairly convoluted!), the writers have kept it from being buried completely — though the whole thing probably… |
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Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013
…minutes, the longest but easily most re-watchable and enjoyable short on the list. Mr. Hublot With no dialogue and an entirely predictable plot, this short has to work a little… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #62: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – Tradigital Animation
…clouds on the DVD cover? • Bryan Adams songs every few minutes. Do they all sound the same? • Little Creek and the painted mare, Rain! • Rain’s “death”; not… |
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Rio 2
…numbers; several bodily function jokes; evil businessmen, angelic environmentalists; nature good, not nature bad. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Every little plot point feels old and uninspired. •… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #64: The Lord of the Rings – So Many Miniskirts
…Why are horses so sassy? Which are our favorites? • Non-canonical horses from Enchanted Stables. • Main Discussion: Lord of the Rings (1978). • A little backstory and bio of… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…While the film brought an awesome visualization of the planet Oa and the Green Lantern Corps, the script tried to do way too much in too little time. Audiences were… |
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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…of the critics really hurt the opening to some extent. Also, it was a Mother’s Day weekend. And, Rio 2 is still out – Rio outperformed us by a little… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…too little too late. At the end of its box office run in 2003, Treasure Planet had grossed a disappointing $109.6 million worldwide. Disney took a $74 million write off… |
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Son Of Batman
…asked to accept such things as bullet-deflecting swordplay, an arrow-shooting Gatling gun, and the young Robin continuing to fight right after having both forearms impaled. It’s all a little much…. |
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Frozen has been on top in Japan for fourteen straight weekends
…their 30s and now mothers are the generation that watched Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid as children, and they spend money on Disney for themselves, and not necessarily… |
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Anniversary Features
…and our name has changed a little bit. But other than that we’re doing the same thing we wanted to do a decade ago — share our love of animation… |
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Disney officially announces production on Moana
…Frozen’s release last year, the film was confirmed by the studio today, with John Musker and Ron Clements (The Little Mermaid, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog) sitting in… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #78: The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad – The RotoSPOOKERS
…Mr. Toad. https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6907875546.mp3 HIGHLIGHTS: • A little insight about Disney’s package film era. • Main Discussion: The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad (1949) • Initial thoughts. Differences between the… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #79: An American Tail – How Many Bands Have a Thunder Tube?
…stories from Chelsea! • Main Discussion: An American Tail (1986) • A little history of the film and how Fievel got his name. • Who’s who in a Don Bluth… |
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Big Hero 6
…a little more noticeable. Despite a twist where it was nice to see a Hollywood film eschewing one of their usual conventions, most of the plot was fairly predictable. In… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…as Yoda’s tale tries a little too hard to examine the force’s mysteries, and that’s how we ended up with the reviled midichlorians of Episode 1, after all. Still, even… |
